Proposal
Read the proposal for braidpool.
For details on how delivering shares to market makers for enabling hashrate futures, read the blog post: Deliver Hashrate to Market Markets.
The pool provides:
- Lower variance for independent miners, even when large miners join the pool.
- Miners build their own blocks, just like in p2pool.
- Payouts require a constant size blockspace, independent of the number of miners on the pool.
- Provide building blocks for enabling a futures market of hash rates.
Progress
The project on github tracks the main components to build. Here's a list to keep us focused:
- Channel management scripts using libbitcoin.
- A DAG of shares to track contributions for miners.
- P2P gossip based broadcast of block and shares.
- Hub to miner communication using Tor's hidden services.
- Validate received blocks and shares. We'll need to find a way to talk to bitcoin node here for this.
- Single script installer (limited to Linux variants).
Matrix chat: https://matrix.to/#/#braidpool:matrix.org
Mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/p/braidpool/mailman/braidpool-discuss/
Development blog: https://pool2win.github.io/braidpool/
Donations: bitcoin:bc1q6xms5xsq6kvk9h57mvsdxdjnnrl0vsc942xlxe